Francesco Sforza

Author(s):  
Christine Shaw

Francesco Sforza was a pivotal figure in the state system of Italy in the 15th century. The son of a prominent condottiere, Muzio Attendolo Sforza, he inherited his father’s company of soldiers in 1424 and became one of the foremost condottieri of his time in his own right. In 1434 he took over much of the province of the Marche in the Papal States and held on as lord there until he was finally driven out in 1447, shortly before the death of his father-in-law, Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan. Although his relations with Visconti, before and after he married Visconti’s daughter, Bianca Maria, had often been bad, when Visconti died without legitimate heirs, Sforza claimed the dukedom. He had to conquer the duchy before he was accepted in Milan as duke in 1450. Despite the legitimacy of his rule continuing to be under question, Sforza became the most influential statesman in Italy, through the use of the impressive diplomatic network he built up rather than through military interventions. The records created and preserved by his efficient chancery constitute a major source for the history of Italy in the mid-15th century. References to him abound in the historiography of Renaissance Italy, but there are not a great many works focused on him, and only a few in English.

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Syafruddin Muhtamar ◽  
Iswandi Rani Saputra

This study aims to find out (1) the relevance of the mandate of the 1945 Constitution of the policy and legal development in GBHN RPJPN, (2) to the normative strategies of national development planning process in the period of the state system before and after amendment to the Constitution of 1945.  This study used a qualitative approach with a descriptive-comparative method. The results showed that (1) the formulation of policy towards development of the law, both the artifacts in the Guidelines of State Policy and RPJPN models, can be said to be substantially relevant to mandate of the Constitution, which applies in the context of each period; (2) there are fundamental differences in strategy formulation nomatif RPJPN GBHN with the preparation. This fundamental difference is the logical consequence of the amendments made to the Constitution of 1945 in the history of the Indonesian nation state system.


2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 433a-433a
Author(s):  
Barbara Zollner

This article investigates the history of the Muslim Brotherhood from 1954 to 1971, when thousands of its members were imprisoned and tortured in Gamel Abdel Nasser's prisons. The period is marked by intervals of crisis, attempts at organizational reform, and ideological discourse, which was prompted by Sayyid Qutb's activist interpretation. However, the Muslim Brotherhood finally developed a moderate ideology, which countered radical Islamist leanings growing within its midst while remaining loyal to Qutb's legacy. This centrist approach to Islamist activism and opposition is epitomized by Duءat la Qudat, which was composed by a number of authors and issued in Hasan al-Hudaybi's name. Written as a joint project of leading Brothers and al-Azhar scholars, the text is evidence of the first steps toward reconciling with the state system during Nasser's presidency.


Author(s):  
Dillon Mahoney

This chapter traces the development of Kenya’s tourism and handicraft industries from their roots in 20th century British colonialism to provide some of the broader history of Kenya’s tourism and co-operative development, their emergence in Mombasa, and their relationships with local governments. I draw on archival as well as ethnographic data collected just before the 2002 demolition of Mombasa’s roadside kiosks, which form the starting point for the larger longitudinal study. I focus on the array of experiences of Mombasa’s roadside traders of diverse backgrounds as they struggle with the privatization and segregation of urban residential and commercial space both before and after the demolitions. The economy was radically altered as the roadsides were “cleaned” and a new wave of economic formalization characterized the relationship between small-scale businesspeople and the state. For many entrepreneurs invested in the global crafts trade, this was the final straw that pushed them toward new technologies, jumping scales into global markets, and investing in export and wholesale businesses that were not spatially dependent upon a connection to the city center.


2020 ◽  
pp. 995-1006
Author(s):  
Natalia I. Gorskaya ◽  

The article analyzes sources in the family fond “The Neelovs” from the State Archive of the Smolensk Region. The main body of documents relates to the history of the 19th century and has not yet been introduced into scientific use. The Neelovs, nobles of the Gzhatsk uezd, who were included in the first part of the genealogical book of the nobles of the Smolensk gubernia, participated in major events of the 19th century on national and regional level. The article is to describe the content of the fond and to assess the information potential of its sources for studying the history of a noble provincial family in the context of Russian history. It establishes that the documents differ in their origin and significance. Recordkeeping documents and those of personal provenance are numerous and informative. Among recordkeeping documents of particular interest are documents of economic nature and the Neelov brothers’ records of service; among sources of personal provenance of most interest are travel notes and epistolary heritage of the family members. There are numerous documents reflecting the Neelov brothers’ life and career, many of which concern well-known Russian professor of the Military Academy and writer N. D. Neelov and the director of the department of agriculture of the Ministry of State Property and Senator D.D. Neelov. The author concludes that the identified sources allow to recreate the history of a rural noble family before and after the abolition of seldom, to study its economic situation, culture, everyday life, and evolution of the social role of nobility in provincial life. The fond content also clarifies socio-economic processes in the midst of peasantry, history and repercussions of the major events of the 19th century: the war of 1812, the Polish uprising of 1831, preparation of the abolition of seldom, activities of the Zemstvo institutions; it helps to connect the history of the family and the history of the country.


In the same way that it is possible to understand warfare as organized violence with political ends, it is also useful to think of it as a particular condition of a society: a set of radically transforming experiences of individuals and communities; an unpredictable and chaotic process that defines identities and produces new forms of common life; and the creative space of a particular culture marked by different types of relationships between the members of a community. As can be seen from several historiographical traditions, there is a direct relationship between warfare and the process of state building: the state makes war and war makes the state. The regime established in America from the end of the 15th century to the 19th century can be explained by this relationship between institutional construction and the practice of violence. Like any empire of its time, the Spanish monarchy founded its authority, part of its legitimacy, its fiscal and administrative organization, its bureaucracy, its control systems, and its trade opportunities on the ground of warfare, and with these characteristics informed the slow and problematic processes of conquest, colonization, and subjection of the New World. Approaching Spanish America through both warfare and the military offers two major advantages: on the one hand, learning the history of its institutional, social, political, economic, and cultural development, and on the other, identifying the prolific historiography that has studied it. This bibliographical selection expresses both fields: the history of warfare in Spanish America and its changing historiography. The characteristics, pretensions, contradictions, and flaws of the Spanish institutional framework that for three centuries expanded from the Caribbean and came to dominate immense regions of North, Central, and South America until it entered into crisis and collapsed, leading to the emergence of national states, can be understood from its capacity to mobilize economic and human resources for warfare. Likewise, these very diverse armed forces involved in such processes were historical expressions of the societies that produced them. The studies in this bibliography express the historical complexity of Spanish America from the perspective of organization and experience of warfare. Although the sections are thematic, as far as possible the selection seeks to include in each case the broad spectrum of the three centuries of colonial domination; the sections referring to War Experiences do evolve with a more chronological criterion from conquests to independences and the emergence of national states.


2020 ◽  
pp. 162-184
Author(s):  
Peter Ferdinand

This chapter deals with institutions and states. Institutions are essentially regular patterns of behaviour that provide stability and predictability to social life. Some institutions are informal, with no formally laid down rules such as the family, social classes, and kinship groups. Others are more formalized, having codified rules and organization. Examples include governments, parties, bureaucracies, legislatures, constitutions, and law courts. The state is defined as sovereign, with institutions that are public. After discussing the concept of institutions and the range of factors that structure political behaviour, the chapter considers the multi-faceted concept of the state. It then looks at the history of how the European type of state and the European state system spread around the world between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. It also examines the modern state and some of the differences between strong states, weak states, and democratic states.


Author(s):  
M. A. Orlov

The article is devoted to the Christianization of the Vyatkа Udmurts under Bishop Veniamin (Sakhnovsky). This bishop was the second, after Bishop Alexy (Titov), the Vyatka archpastor, who spread Christianity among the Udmurts. His missionary activity is considered before and after the establishment of the Novokreshchensk cantor. Some historiographic conclusions concerning the practice of Christianization in the Volga region are specified. The question of financial support for the Vyatka mission by the state is raised. Correspondence of Bishop Veniamin with the Holy Synod on the material support of the Vyatka mission is published. The personal contribution of Bishop Veniamin to the process of Christianization of the Udmurts is noted: bishop trips to the Udmurts, the foundation of the first Novo Baptist parish in the village of Elovo, allocation of his own funds for the organization of missionary work. One of the sides of the bishop’s activity was the protection of the Udmurts from the oppression of the Karin Tatars. The result of the missionary work of Bishop Veniamin was the organization of Novokreshchensky parish in the village of Elovo - the first one in the history of Udmurts.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Wagner

The monograph is concerned with the population and buildings of five big cities of the Polish Crown (Warsaw, Cracow, Poznan, Lublin and Lviv) in the light of taxes imposed on their inhabitants. The analysis of the state of the tenements and wealth inequalities indicates the consequences of the destruction during the so-called Deluge in the economic history of the Polish Commonwealth and explores the differences between the cities before and after the Swedish invasion.


Prison Power ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 21-52
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Corrigan

This chapter traces rhetorical and political history of imprisonment before and after the birth of Black Power, focusing on major moments of activist imprisonment as well as movement discourses written from prison. In charting the role of prison in the movement, the chapter also discusses the emergence and legitimacy of Black Power as a slogan, as a theoretical device, and as a series of rhetorical strategies designed to be a particularly historical intervention into the stagnating discourses of “civil rights” and “law and order.” This chapter contends that incarceration became a major strategy used by both black activists and white conservatives during the Black Power era; consequently, the period following 1966 marked a new phase of Jim Crow as Black Power became a rallying cry against state repression. This chapter suggests that the legitimacy of Black Power as a term of art, as a series of vernacular signs, and as an organizing principle in a new phase of the black liberation movement, hinged upon whether the state or the activists controlled the frame and how closely it became associated with violence. Because the Black Power slogan and ideology were articulated by activists with extensive rap sheets as the state circumscribed their activism, Black Power ideology took up the relationship between state repression and incarceration as a place to excavate new arenas for the black liberation struggle, particularly in the memoirs of movement activists.


2019 ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
I.O. Dementev

В статье проанализирован опыт реализации молодежных краеведческих инициатив в Калининградской области. В советское время в регионе, как и везде в стране, действовала единая государственная система организации краеведческого воспитания: молодежь воспринималась почти исключительно в качестве объекта педагогического воздействия, а краеведческая проблематика была вписана в контекст военно-патриотического воспитания. Период Перестройки был отмечен ростом спонтанной молодежной активности относительно охраны культурного наследия и изучения новых тем по истории края, особенно Восточной Пруссии. После 1991 г. во многом сохранилась инерция работы государственной системы краеведческого образования, но в условиях трансформации социально-экономических институтов выдвинулись новые субъекты некоммерческие организации. С одной стороны, молодежь и сегодня нередко рассматривается с позиций прежнего субъект-объектного подхода. С другой в условиях глобализации приобретение молодежью субъектности несет новые вызовы, для ответа на которые нужно изучать региональный опыт реализации молодежных краеведческих инициатив.The article presents the experience of the implementation of youth local history initiatives in the Kaliningrad Region (the former German province of East Prussia). During the Soviet time, the region, as everywhere in the Soviet Union, had a unified state system of organizing local history education: young people were perceived almost exclusively as an object of pedagogical influence, and local history issues were integrated into the context of militarypatriotic education. Museums of military glory and detachments of red pathfinders worked on the basis of schools that studied the history of the Second World War battles in East Prussia. The issues of the prewar history of the region were de facto banned. At the same time, schoolchildren had certain opportunities to implement their initiatives, although the latter were limited by the dominant ideology. The period of the Perestroika was marked by the growth of spontaneous youth activity in the protection of heritage and the study of new topics on the history of the region, especially the province of East Prussia. It was the period of shaping of informal groups that became the prototypes of future civil society institutions. After 1991, the inertia of the work of the state system of local history education was largely preserved. At first, the system of militarypatriotic education experienced decline, but at the beginning of the 21st century it was reanimated, setting a new framework for discussions on regional history. At the same time, in the conditions of the transformation of socioeconomic institutions, new entities came forward nongovernmental nonprofit organizations. In contrast to the Soviet era, when the state was the only source of resources for local history initiatives, new sources have emerged these days. Among them are state and municipal budgets, business, charitable foundations. Some NGOs have become independent players in the market. Volunteer initiatives of youth in the field of commemoration of world wars retain their significance. Various examples of NGOs activities in the first two decades of the 21st century are represented. The author argues that, on the one hand, young people are still considered in terms of the former subjectobject approach. For some organizations, a persistent appeal to the needs of the youth hides a basic distrust of their ability to act independently and responsibly. On the other hand, in the conditions of globalization, the formation of the youth as the subject brings new challenges, the respond to which requires studying the experience of implementing youth initiatives in the field of local and regional history.


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